From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Detlev Zundel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Maintainer overview Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:48:33 +0200 Organization: Church of Emacs - Missionary division Message-ID: References: <83oc0fdsgg.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311842940 13090 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2011 08:49:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:49:00 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 10:48:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmMH1-0005Sb-MS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:48:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49525 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmMH1-0004MI-AT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:48:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59373) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmMGz-0004Lj-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:48:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmMGy-0001At-2k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:48:53 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmMGx-0001Ap-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:48:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmMGv-0005QP-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:48:49 +0200 Original-Received: from pd9e179fa.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.225.121.250]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:48:49 +0200 Original-Received: from dzu by pd9e179fa.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:48:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e179fa.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ACXJdhwOQZnvm03eDCPGmGhDd9Y= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142437 Archived-At: Hi, >>> I think it would be very nice if we had such a list of >>> packages/maintainers -- that was up-to-date. >> >> We have something in admin/MAINTAINERS. > > It's a starting point. Just as a hint - the Linux kernel has a pretty good grasp on this topic with the MAINTAINERS[1] file. There's a script alongside it[2] which can find maintainers even for a presented patch. That helps _a lot_ to automatically find the responsible people. Of course in Emacs we could integrate that better, but comparable functionality would be nice to have ;) Cheers Detlev [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=MAINTAINERS [2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=scripts/get_maintainer.pl -- There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.